Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On September 15, 2010 11:10:45 am Carlos Mennens wrote: >> Doesn't that show I'm connected to the 'postgres' database and there >> is a table called 'pg_user' which holds all my PostgreSQL user info? >> That doesn't make sense to me if the database is empty unless I am >> missing something here. The only way I knew 'pg_user' was available >> was because I ran the command '\dS'. > system tables don't show up in normal views. I don't think they really belong > to particular databases either, but someone might correct me on that. There are a small number of "shared" catalogs, in particular the list of users and the list of databases, that are visible in all databases. Most of the catalogs are per-database, though, so that they can have different contents in different databases. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
